Qing · Rebel

Lin Shuangwen 林爽文

Attested AD 1787 - AD 1787

Passages: 5
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Lin Shuangwen was a rebel.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1787 乾隆五十一年十二月
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 328, passage 9
AD 1787 乾隆五十二年八月
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 328, passage 42
AD 1787 乾隆五十二年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 328, passages 13, 15

Places and affiliations

At Zhangzhou 漳州
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 328, passage 15
AD 1787 乾隆五十二年
At Daliyi 大里杙 · Relation Based at
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 328, passage 25

Events and relationships

Captured
AD 1787 乾隆五十二年 · Military · Rebel leader · At Zhuluo 諸羅
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 328, passage 13
Rose in rebellion
AD 1787 乾隆五十一年十二月 · Military · Rebel leader · At Zhanghua 彰化
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 328, passage 9

References in the histories

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 328Volume 328 Biographies 115: Chang Qing, Lan Yuanmei, Cai Panlong, Liang Chaogui, Pu Ji Bao, Ding Chaoxiong, E Hui, Shu Liang · 5 passages

十二月，林爽文亂起，陷彰化，知縣俞峻死之。 In the twelfth month the Lin Shuangwen uprising broke out; Zhanghua was taken and magistrate Yu Jun was killed.

爽文漳州人，其徒率漳籍。 Shuangwen was from Zhangzhou, and most of his followers were Zhangzhou men.

旋奏爽文還大里杙舊巢，其徒莊大田等萬餘人分擾南路，擬先南剿大田，乃北取爽文。 He soon reported that Shuangwen had withdrawn to his old base at Daliyi while followers such as Zhuang Datian, numbering more than ten thousand, were harrying the south; he planned to crush Datian in the south first, then move north against Shuangwen.

爽文之徒莊錫舍出降，擒偽軍師番婦金孃，請檻車送京師，上命授錫舍守備。 Shuangwen's follower Zhuang Xishe defected, and the rebels' female aboriginal strategist Jin Niang was taken; he asked to send her to the capital in a prison cart, and the emperor made Xishe a garrison commander.

八月，命福康安為將軍，督諸將海蘭察、普爾普等大出師討爽文。 In the eighth month Fuk'anggan was made general and led Hailancha, Pulupu, and other commanders in a full-scale campaign against Shuangwen.